Pan American - The Patience Fader (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | 39:51 | 402 Mb
Genre: Ambient / Label: Kranky
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | 39:51 | 402 Mb
Genre: Ambient / Label: Kranky
The glacial distillation of Pan•American aka Mark Nelson’s “romantic minimalism” achieves unique fruition on his latest Kranky collection, The Patience Fader.
A suite of solo guitar instrumentals accented with lap steel, harmonica, and twilit atmospherics, the strings smear and sparkle in elegant, windswept swells, a guitar mode once described by Brian Eno as “Duane Eddy playing Erik Satie.” These are elegies as much as songs, lulling and lilting in private currents of beauty and bereavement. Nelson speaks of the notion of “lighthouse music,” radiance cast from a stable vantage point, sending “a signal to help others through rocks and dangerous currents.”
Composed during the highly isolated summer of 2020, the pieces took shape as meditations on “roots and mourning, trying to connect with those deep hidden rivers that lead to a greater communality.” There’s something ageless, scarred, and American about this music, both displaced and devotional, the ghost of rust belts and dust bowls looming in a horizon of deepening dusk.
Track List:
1. Swimming in a Western Hotel (2:49)
2. Outskirts, Dreamlit (6:28)
3. Corniel (2:46)
4. The North Line (4:02)
5. Baitshop (0:28)
6. Harmony Conversion (3:09)
7. Memorizing, Memorizing (2:36)
8. Just a Story (4:58)
9. Nightwater (2:34)
10. Wooster, Ohio (1:30)
11. Almost Grown (4:55)
12. Grounded (3:42)
foobar2000 1.6.10 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2022-02-17 17:19:10
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Analyzed: Mark Nelson / The Patience Fader
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -0.52 dB -14.57 dB 2:49 01-Swimming in a Western Hotel
DR10 -0.42 dB -12.51 dB 6:28 02-Outskirts, Dreamlit
DR9 -0.52 dB -12.46 dB 2:46 03-Corniel
DR7 -0.79 dB -10.89 dB 4:02 04-The North Line
DR19 -8.83 dB -33.23 dB 0:28 05-Baitshop
DR7 -0.94 dB -9.57 dB 3:09 06-Harmony Conversion
DR9 -0.52 dB -12.42 dB 2:36 07-Memorizing, Memorizing
DR8 -0.52 dB -11.07 dB 4:58 08-Just a Story
DR9 -0.50 dB -10.93 dB 2:34 09-Nightwater
DR9 -2.17 dB -15.13 dB 1:30 10-Wooster, Ohio
DR8 -0.52 dB -10.75 dB 4:55 11-Almost Grown
DR9 -1.02 dB -12.46 dB 3:42 12-Grounded
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1531 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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log date: 2022-02-17 17:19:10
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Analyzed: Mark Nelson / The Patience Fader
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -0.52 dB -14.57 dB 2:49 01-Swimming in a Western Hotel
DR10 -0.42 dB -12.51 dB 6:28 02-Outskirts, Dreamlit
DR9 -0.52 dB -12.46 dB 2:46 03-Corniel
DR7 -0.79 dB -10.89 dB 4:02 04-The North Line
DR19 -8.83 dB -33.23 dB 0:28 05-Baitshop
DR7 -0.94 dB -9.57 dB 3:09 06-Harmony Conversion
DR9 -0.52 dB -12.42 dB 2:36 07-Memorizing, Memorizing
DR8 -0.52 dB -11.07 dB 4:58 08-Just a Story
DR9 -0.50 dB -10.93 dB 2:34 09-Nightwater
DR9 -2.17 dB -15.13 dB 1:30 10-Wooster, Ohio
DR8 -0.52 dB -10.75 dB 4:55 11-Almost Grown
DR9 -1.02 dB -12.46 dB 3:42 12-Grounded
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1531 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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